With Ukraine talks next week, the odds of a short but powerful bounce to recent market declines looms. But as we shall point out, there are a few clouds and prophecies to temper the tone, a bit.
Then there’s the matter of the Calendar and an interesting case of woo-woo overnight, As I have explained both here on Peoplenomics and elsewhere in my books, I live a somewhat strange existence. See, I have a very nice life when awake. But there is a “second life” that happens in my dreams.
Normally, I don’t mention this “other dimension of George” but there are times when what’s going on with “Project Earth” are allowable. And the four cardinal dates are when glimpses of Other may (by a few) be most usefully experienced.
Think of that “non-business” (or, it’s really the only business of Life) as offering a few notes on personal “dream tuning.” Because it’s very much like the old classic shortwave set. We can “tune-in” different worlds with practice. Not everyone, though. Only those who work at it.
It all works because we are “non-local” at our (soul or essence) core level, We are also very forgetful – hence we forget our non-local aspects all too easily.
Forgive me the indulgence in some “plane” speaking.
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seems that ole hag
Maggie Haberman “I’m a White House correspondent for The New York Times.”
has been up to her tricks of bull shit in the news about Elon and Rubio, starting gossip.
here she is with another piece of shit, Kaitlin collins
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/25/politics/video/maggie-haberman-donald-trump-elon-musk-doge-cabinet-src-digvid
there are two Maggies in the ‘Q’ drops one is little Maggie Nixon who is reported to have disappeared , Obama problem,,, and there is Haberman, the NYT reporter, who is deep, so of course the feud story has a distinctive fake smell to it
https://qalerts.app/?q=maggie
sure seems to a lot of legacy news going down hill, reducing staff, and losing revenue,,, yippy kie aye
What is Leverage ?
How do get/obtain Leverage versus a Partner/Opponent/Enemy ?
Fact – epsatin op was 100% intel op = mossad . 100%
as old saying goes “burds of a feather, flock together” burds = alphabets.
tRUMP is known to hold his cards “close” – ? what would he be Leveraging Gates and israHELL For or Against?
can not reason why else Ass Patel and blondi would be bullschitting everyone with epsatin file delays, accompanied by whistleblower accounts of “shredding’& bleachbiting going on in southern district..SHIT stinks to HIGH HEAVEN.
Sniff, sniff – the whole F-ing place, DC, has a very FOUL odor to it..still .
Turning of the seasons (and clocks) :
A late-ish winter storm smacked us again last night, piling white on the lawns and frosting trees against an azure blue morning sky. Still “frosty” (dLynn) still waiting for the turn.
In Peoplenomics (participant side) : “After that? Well, back to chicken on the sidelines for us” A reminder. Deciding not to trade, to _not_ take a position, is still a decision. Be content.
I remain hohum irt: the why. We will conjure up plenty of excuses and play blame game but usually months later can point back and say “that” was causal. How could we be so stupid?
CRE debt is thumping the econ. Check how low quality auto loans are deeply in arrears. The delinquency rate is off charts. Guess instead of looking for cars at dealerships we should watch bank lots?
We (Royal) don’t see how desperate We The People have been the last several years if insulated from spiraling costs. The lower 40%? Different story. I believe we are a turning of tides. Buckle up!
Egor
I was wondering if your shop has blank walls. Elaine is clever with paint and a brush. She could transform your shop into a starship, an ocean view workroom, or paint your dreamscapes. it would be interesting to see what she would come up with.
I wrote down my dreams for years. I often went back to the same “houses” ,”classrooms”, and “landscapes”. Sometimes dead family members or friends chatted with me. Once my sister gave me a teddy bear. I felt quite loved.
LOL Elanor, Elaine can, indeed, transform anything into “anything” but today this is an even easier way! Remember, you can buy a big screen TV for very little (comparatively, I suppose). And if you read our Peoplenomics work on ultra-high energy efficiency homes, you will discover that for YEARS we have advocated USB mini cameras (PTZ, if you want – pan, tilt, zoom) as the “eyes.” One of the shop projects (parts in hand, just need a few more hours in the day…) I will put a 65″ over the main shop bench. So I can look at PDFs of plans and such (or seascape with crashing waves) while working. Old Bose Inter-Audio speakers in the shop and an old Lafayette amp also await an excess of time. And my friend Dr. Ron insists I hurry along the cedar steam sauna so we can reap some bennies of heat shock proteins with a good 165F steam/IR mnixed mode sauna. I can build it for $2-grand or buy what I want for $10g, Makes it a simple choice, lol.
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You wrote ” Sometimes dead family members or friends chatted with me. Once my sister gave me a teddy bear. I felt quite loved.”
Rest easy, dear: you ARE.
I was talking with Elaine about this at breakfast – about me dream visit with a dear sunsetting ALZ friend of several decades. I concluded (in addition to what was on PN overnight) that there are “whole people” and there are “partial people.”
The “Whole Person” has spent enough lifetimes going around Earth that it has occurred to them the “whole person” is the Soul or essence of what we are. But we have a “now piece” (waking state mind), a “dream state” (sleep obviously), past experiences with death (hence our research into near-death experiences, and then there’s the Past Lives experiences.
As a person becomes more able to integrate all these disparate aspects of Whole Self into the waking state, so their mission begins to complete.
Along the way, the number of “sdlow deaths” is likely increasing (across medicine) because of our increasing demands and training to “understand” everything (literally) to Death. My friend’s explanation of his ALZ sunsetting (to get more time inbetween li9ef and Next to allow for more “rfiguring out.”) While Elaine and I are/have been working the problem (integration of the many aspects of self, so here, others not) so we can do a “fast exity”.
Not saying this IS the way IT works, but Faith (that it all works, short-handed as “believing in God” by religion monetizers) is the only adjustment needed before going on to “next.” And yet, some large fraction will be hgaunted by their monkey minds into “must figure out how IT all really works, and thus, they need a longer death-transition while they take in whole Grandeur of the Universe. The spoiler is they may not get it, but when they do eventually JUST ACCEPT the bounty of Universe, it will all work anyway.
Prolly said far too much. So I have to find a way now to create a bare space on the shop walls – which are completely hidden from sight!
4 Ure consideration and entertainment.
16 internal methods..#s 10&11
#10
” It is possible to feel nauseated.When this happens, do not worry. When your stomach or intestines have discomfort, breath deeply, make a burp and if the Qi inside your stomach or intestines will be released. If your nausea is very severe, use your hand to stimulate your your throat and vomit. If you can not vomit, burping should help the “liver Qi” collected inside your stomach. If you feel like vomiting, do not control yourself. After vomiting and burping, you should feel more comfortable.
#11
When you have your eyes closed and breathe deeply, you may feel your body becomes very light as if it is gradually floating in the air. When you experience this phenomenon, do not be nervous. Some of you may feel you are floating higher and higher. This is only a sensation, do not consider it real. But some people can actually leave their seat and float. It does not matter if you feel like floating or if you actually float, be natural, floating in the air is a process of absorbing Qi.
Please close your eyes and breath deeply, during your inhalation, imagine is gradually floating, floating higher and higher. Intentionally add a thought that it does not matter how high or where you are floating, you will always return to your present location. This is important, you should always py attention to this point, especially for the elders, you should not let yourself float too far away. Once you realise you are floating, tell yourself to float back. That is to say, in the beginning, consciously feeling as if your body is floating in the air, near the clouds or besides a tree but it has to come back. This is a method of collecting and absorbing Qi with your mind. For those who are sick, you may imagine your image has floated beside a tree, that you are breathing in front of the tree, the kind you like the most, as if all your illnesses have been transferred to the tree. This is method of releasing your illness.” -YX
“The “Whole Person” has spent enough lifetimes going around Earth…………………… they may not get it, but when they do eventually JUST ACCEPT the bounty of Universe, it will all work anyway.”
These 3 paragraphs are classic and deserve to be in Ure Hall of Fame.
All atwitter over a cease fire – which is not about to happen. Not even close.
Russia will accept no cease fire – negotiated by anyone – unless they get what they want., and not one cease fire offer., nor peace deal has incorporated that fact.
Just this morning Russia scoffed at the peace deal offered by a “collation of countries” . Not one of those high-level airheads even thought to ask Russia what it wants in the peace deals. Not one.
A group of fat old men, sitting around a table., acting all-important., making stoic little speeches to each other – it is pathetic !
European so-called leaders are just bonkers. Weak little boys in expensive suits, trying to act like the toughest kid on the play ground. Putin looks at them, like he does so often with anyone who crosses swords with him., as nothing more than ‘targets’.
Total, unadulterated bullshit.
Until they get together and offer Putin what he wants, at least to some major degree., this is not going away., and will not end.., it will escalate out of pure frustration. And I believe that escalation will be major. It will be done to make a point, a horrific point.
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And that’s why we will exit our trade monday or tuesday – you are so right – russia didn’t suffer the horrors of he Grfeat War to get snad kicked by the EU…
I don’t think the question before Russia is “What do you want?” I believe it is “What will you accept?”
We pretty much know the answer already.
Russia will not give up its warm water port — a port that’s been Russian turf for longer than the United States has existed.
Russia will not tolerate nukes that’re less than a half-hour away from the Kremlin. Ukraine as a NATO member is likely a non-starter.
Russia will not tolerate the Azov shitheads, entertaining themselves by randomly raping and murdering Russian-speaking people who live in the eastern 20% of what the EU considers “Ukraine,” or these people starved or driven to madness by thirst at the whim, and for the amusement of the Ukrainian-speaking population.
Crimea voted 93/7 to secede from Ukraine. The Crimeans then voted 89/11 to become a Russian province. Eventually, the media will extract its collective heads from the asses of a Ukrainian comedian and a South Carolina Senator, and this will become known to people who weren’t paying attention to that part of the world 20, 15, and 10 years ago.
Aside from Crimea and the port at Sevastopol, about which Russia will not compromise, the rest of this stuff is simple common sense and common decency. It should be neither open to debate nor compromise.
.., and – I believe that Trump made a big mistake in threatening Putin with more and severe banking sanctions if he doesn’t go to the negotiating table.
Putin may have gone to the table with Trump., but not now.
Two things:
1) My rather poor record as a prognosticator remains unblemished, as I note The “Z: man has not been deposed as of Satuday Morning, EDST. (I had predicted his removal via coup by mid-week.)
2) Could Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ( of Saudi) be “MABUS?” He is sometimes referred to as “MBS” which is where I get that idea. I also got the idea that he just about runs the country now.
..and he ain’t no sweetie-pie.
My reading suggest he’s a nasty piece of work.
You talking about “Bone Saw” Mohammed Bn Salman, the Crown Prince?
The Prince is a generous man who looks out for the people of his nation. He entertained, at his expense, a number of the most wealthy Saudis in the BEST Hotel in Saudi Arabia so he could convince them that being generous with their wealth towards the people of Saudi Arabia was a wonderful idea. Most agreed to being generous with their “sharing” to the people of Saudi Arabia after a few days of the Prince’s hospitality but unfortunately several had medical problems during their transit to the hotel, or while residing in that 5 star hotel, problems from which they did not recover.
What a wonderful leader for Saudi Arabia!
MBS had Kashoggi (journalist critisizing MBS) killed,
a lot of the world was not entertained:
‘The US, Canada, France and the UK all levied sanctions against 18 Saudis allegedly linked to the killing. The Saudi crown prince was not among them.
Germany, Finland and Denmark were among the European nations to cancel arms deals with Saudi Arabia after the killing.’
sorry here’s the link to paragraphs about MBS:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45812399
Over-Slash at the SSA
The recent actions of Musk have put the Social Security Database in serious danger of running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas in the near future. The group responsible for ALL SSI data backups has just lost 8 of 20 well qualified people due to retirement and firings.
Those SSI databases are on three mainframe clouds, ( two in MD, and one in CO) which use COBAL operating systems. The site in CO has been scheduled for closing. It will take 3 years and $100 million to reestablish it in MD.
Most of the COBAL programmers are close, or at retirement age. It would take a massive COBAL training of young people to maintain the existing databases in government, AND the world-wide financial system, or an AI capable of converting the existing mainframe COBAL software to run on X86 hardware.
Del is the primary provider of mainframe hardware, and they have only committed to support it until 2031.
Relax, A.G. Don’t let some dumbass or agenda-driven scaremonger get to you.
Your cellphone is more capable and more powerful than those mainframe computers.
A “mainframe” computer is a modular computer system, comprised of a central processing unit that’s about the size of a large commercial refrigerator/freezer, and a collection of hardware peripherals which perform mechanical functions for the CPU like data entry and data storage. The CPU (which is the size of a refrigerator, remember) runs at a speed that’s 10,000 times slower than the speed of a common desktop or laptop computer, and has a capability that’s about 18,000 times less than that of any generic desktop computer made in the past 15 years. Data storage is typically on magnetic tape or on magnetic-media coated 14″ aluminum discs. The hard drive in your PC will hold more data than a million sq.ft. building full of tape or disc drives, and it is hundreds of thousands of times faster than all of them, put together.
People keep mainframes around for vanity’s sake. They cost several million dollars each, back in the 1970s, required dedicated buildings to house, and until they break, beancounters won’t justify replacing them, even though there’s no real mainframe computer which could not be completely replaced with a thousand dollar desktop like the one their corporate receptionist plays solitaire on.
Mainframe computers typically run on a UNIX operating system. This is, for practical purposes then, the machine’s language. To run a computer program, the program has to be written in a “computer language” like BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) or COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), then translated into the machine’s language.
A computer “program” is a device that’s written in a computer language, and which accepts “data” and performs a function on it.
Data is facts, figures, numbers, or whatever.
An example of all of this: Picture Microsoft Excel. Now imagine it was written in COBOL and running on a house-sized “mainframe computer.” Same program, looks the same, performs the same functions in the same manner. If no one told you, you’d never know it was either written in COBOL or running on a mainframe, until you ran a computation. As long as you’re inputting a name in column-1 and a number in column-2, it would look exactly like Excel on your PC. However, when you asked it to total the lines in column-2 and place the result in column-3, it would take noticeably longer to do so, because the mainframe is much slower than your PC.
COBOL is nothing. It is simply a computer language. It is robust, but highly limited and very slow.
There are COBOL classes in about a half-dozen universities, and about a half-dozen junior or community colleges. Rutgers, Colorado State, and a CC that’s affiliated with the University of Minnesota are the ones I can remember, but I know there are a few others. There are over 4000 universities and JCs/CCs that teach Visual BASIC, along with about 12,000 high schools — and VB is a garbage programming language — but its useful.
Musk’s geeks could buy a PC, install Debian or Red Hat, and rewrite the bookkeeping and accounting programs that’re now written in COBOL, in Assembler (Assembly Language is one step removed from a computer’s native machine language. It is extremely fast and robust, and a highly-efficient programming language), and replace the entire Social Security / Medicare / Medicaid / SSI system for a few thousand dollars, in a matter of days, and increase its efficiency by thousands of times over.
I just heard Sean Duffy complaining that the FAA computers store their data on 5¼” and 8″ floppy drives. I have never even seen a functioning 8″ drive. They are a relic of the 1980s, and were notably unreliable. Most corporations replaced them in the mid-1980s with 14″ disc drives (they make excellent Frisbees — I have a few…)
‘Point is: COBOL programming and programmers aren’t necessary, or even desirable. A mainframe running COBOL is like a 1903 Oldsmobile. It was useful, in 1904. However it can not compare in ANY meaningful way with what we have now.
Well said
https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/dell-and-emc-why-and-what-it-means/
Not X86 there chief.
George,
Henrik Zeberg, is a macroeconomist who uses a ‘longwave macroeconomic cycles’ approach using traditional labor and manufacturing data. He predicted a SPX high of 6100-6150 over a year ago. He extended that prediction a few months ago to 6300 and, consistent with Urban Survival, also thinks the US markets will have a final blow-off.
While his intermediate severe deflationary projection is consistent with mine, I don’t think there will an additional US equity blow-off. The European equities did recently blow-off, but US markets already have long factored #47’s tariffs and their associated decreased economic growth with paradoxical initial consumer inflation. Even with the president’s partial reversals, the elephant is nearing the edge of a crumbling and fragile cliff.
The fractal mathematical maximum time length of lower high valuation growth for the SPX was on 21 Feb 2025 completing a 27 Oct 2023 55/139/138 day :: x/2.5x/2.5x fractal growth series with peak valuation on 19 Feb 2025. This x/2.5x/2.5x pattern was similar to the 1807 36/90/90 year peak growth valuation occurring on 8 Nov 2021. The opening floodgates of Covid money/credit creation in the last year of president #45 and the first year of #46 produced a 8+/24/14 month growth equity growth fractal series followed by the 27 Oct 2023 55/139/138 day :: x/2.5x/2.5x maximal US equity fractal series growth.
The last 7 days of the 138 3rd fractal has become the interpolated 1st 7 days of a 12 Feb 2025 7/11 of 14-18/14-18 day 3-phase crash series which aligns with crypto, gold, European, Asian, Amazon, and Tesla Fractal progression series. (Fractal groupings and subgrouping currently support this model.)
At any rate, the US global equity markets will point the way within the next 3-8 trading days. (The underlying SPX 27 October 2023 trend line has already been decidedly broken. )
Retrospectively, the angst with the tariffs, the rapidly deteriorating consumer sentiment, the historically high subprime auto loan default rate, the corporate mass firings and decreased job openings(prior to DOGE firings), and the recent ISM data skewed by increased imports(secondary to anticipated tariffs) will all be seen as obvious ongoing data points ‘clearly’ showing that peak US SPX equity valuation had been reached on 19 Feb 2025.
Just announced – Trump is considering pulling 35,000 troops out of Germany.
– I agree with this – we are not needed, nor wanted there.
– And a real-world smack in the chops – as 35,000 troops will no longer be spending to help support their economy.
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But.., where will we relocate an additional 35,000 troops here ? Hhhmmm…..,
Well we got this here border
The Middle East
dLynn : “where will we relocate an additional 35,000 troops”
Poland. They are the new front line vs my countrymen in Deutschland. They are NATO and very friendly to communal interests. They are building out their defense capability in excess their Euro cousins.
I once visited fam. stationed in a teeny German hamlet. BIL was commanding a tank brigade (from his Humvee * Command cruiser). The Germans are lovely people but hated the US presence.
Understandable given the M1A1s occasionally crushed a car or row of cars (hopefully parked, sometimes not). There was general dufusness involved considering their own military was in shackles.
Chess pieces are moving all over the board. We hopes our playah threads numerous needles and we come out on the other side in less a threatening mode. But, that’s hoping a lot, hey?
Egor
Poland is proposing a new common-defense coalition, of which they would be members, along with Hungary, the U.S., and Russia, but no other current NATO members are (as yet) involved. Orban has stated that if the United States quits NATO, Hungary will, also.
Personally, I think we have a border or two which could always stand to have a few barracks erected upon…
In January the number of US troops in Europe, all services, reportedly totaled 84,000 in Jan 2025 per United States European Command but 90,000 per other sources.
The biggest deployment locations in 2024 were:
Germany 39,000+-
Poland: 14,000+-
Italy: 13,000+-
UK: 10,000+-
Spain: 4,000+-
Turkey: 2,000+-
Total for those countries: 82,000
It is estimated that the US currently has about 100 B-16 nuclear gravity bombs in Europe. There are no reports of nuclear warhead missiles being kept in Europe.
https://www.cfr.org/article/where-are-us-forces-deployed-europe
It is important to keep in mind the US is currently building an all new base in Romania that was planned to be THE BIGGEST US BASE IN EUROPE. Who knows if it will ever be completed now that Trump is reportedly pulling troops out of Europe.
In January the number of US troops in Europe, all services, reportedly totaled 84,000 in Jan 2025 per United States European Command but 90,000 per other sources.
The biggest deployment locations in 2024 were:
Germany 39,000+-
Poland: 14,000+-
Italy: 13,000+-
UK: 10,000+-
Spain: 4,000+-
Turkey: 2,000+-
Total for those countries: 82,000
It is estimated that the US currently has about 100 B-16 nuclear gravity bombs in Europe. There are no reports of nuclear warhead missiles being kept in Europe.
https://www.cfr.org/article/where-are-us-forces-deployed-europe
It is important to keep in mind the US is currently building an all new base in Romania that was planned to be THE BIGGEST US BASE IN EUROPE. Who knows if it will ever be completed now that Trump is reportedly pulling troops out of Europe.
re: Don’s Doodle Pad
feat: Woops, he did it again
Folks,
It’s apparently plain as day to President Trump who woke up one day recently imagining that the Canada-USA border should be redrawn. The publisher of this fine tome expressed unease about a potential for rough seas in the San Juan Straits. I would concur and respectfully suggest that the President is barking up the wrong tree.
Happily, proof can be offered that such observation and concern is warranted. Opportunity may be at hand for a 150 year old injustice upon Canada to be set right.
History records that The Protocol of 1873 occurred in Washington on March 10th of that year. It set the boundary in the Straits east of Vancouver Island, and south of the 49th parallel. The USA-favored and more westerly Canal de Haro was selected over an eastern Rosario Channel border demarcation. However the assignment of Canal de Haro for the 1873 Protocol was made on October 21, 1872 by the recently installed Emperor of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm I. He had just unified Germany while crushing the French. Here is an “Archive” web link to the text of the ‘Protocol of 1873’:
https://archive.org/details/cihm_14117
Certainly convening an Imperial tête-a-tête which includes crossborder Doodlers-in-Chief may bear consideration. A Kaiser next-in-line descendant, Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern (House of which dates to 1160ish) keeps busy commuting between his castles and business interests. However Royal Appointments do appear feasible via the Prince’s royal-groovin dot de band website. These might be ingredients for a memorable shindig.
Let’s catch up with DJ George along with right-hand Director Elaine ready to drop Porsche clutch out of Flughafen Franz Josef Strauß. Set your gps for the Hotel Bayerischer, site of last month’s Munich Security Conference. Move over Vasyl Petrovych and Marco, here’s ‘Royal Groovin’ ‘ with some real jazz and peace for our time. “My baby just cares for me” is at the following Youtube link. Prince Karl Friedrich is on saxophone:
https://youtu.be/MwVknicrlVg
If President Polk had pushed his “54.40 OR FIGHT” forward against the British in 1846 … well we would already occupy much of what is now Southern Canada west of the Great Lakes and in fact we would have all the land on the West Coast from the Baja up to the Russia owned land which we later bought from them (Alaska). Canada would NOT go all the way to the Pacific. It would all be United States land!!
Darn … Polk went to War with Mexico to get California, part of Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona … and screwed that up by NOT claiming the land drained by the Colorado River all the way to Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) which would have placed a Pacific sea port in SW Arizona below Yuma.
In addition Polk also screwed up when he decided to NOT push the issue of 54.40 for the Northern Border of the US which effectively allowed British claimed land, that later became Canada, to have a Pacific Port plus kept a lots of good ag land across the southern tier of what is now Canada from being American.
Sure Polk got a lot, yep including Washington State and part of Oregon in his settlement of his 54.40 claim, and the land running east of there along what became the Washington State border for the US, … but since he was being a thief anyway he should have gone for the whole enchilada and stuck by his 54.40 line!!
Polk was greedy … he just wasn’t greedy ENOUGH!! with either Mexico or with Great Britain.
Ah … fighting for land so one can have a port on a large body of water, or control that body of water, is as good a reason for War as any, which is exactly why Ohio went to WAR against Michigan – which btw it “won” (and got the land it wanted)
Stephen 2,
I see ‘Alaska’ noted above, but will sidestep Polking the (Russian) bear. Probably I should have started at the beginning with the Treaty of Paris signed in 1783 which officially ended the American Revolutionary War. (Allegedly the English signers assured Mr. Jefferson and his colleagues that it was an “extremely generous” settlement.)
The Hotel d’York business at the Treaty signing site 56 Rue Jacob in the St. Germain district of Paris is no more. However a plaque commemorating the event is visible on Google streetview. Interestingly the building facade now bears signage of Napoleon’s famous Imperial Printer, Firmin Didot who commenced development of his typeface in 1784. Apparently it’s not digital-friendly and supposedly only Apple offers it according to “Wiki”. The current streetview images for the address reflect building interior renovations in progress. A construction van parked adjacent on the street bears a green-inked decal advising the company name “MacPro”. A poster attached on the site’s fencing advertises an upcoming concert by the Parisien choir “Gospel Dream”. The image is from their “Highway to Heaven” album. With it being Sunday today, perhaps I can quote a paraphrasing of Isaiah 35:8 – “life is a journey”.
“which is exactly why Ohio went to WAR against Michigan – which btw it “won” (and got the land it wanted)”
Seriously? Ever seen an Ohio State vs Michigan football game?
That war wasn’t “won.” They refight the damn’ thing every year…
Question: Michigan was part of the Indiana Territory. Why then, did Congress have to chisel out the Calumet Region so Indiana would have a Great Lakes port, or set the disputed Michigan/Ohio border? Why were these things not done before the States of Ohio (1803), Indiana (1816), Illinois (1818), and Michigan (1837) became States…?
Spring cleaning is ramping up. Today’s count:
5 large bags of old magazines. Some of them might be of value to someone, others might be of value in an extended SHTF. RIP.
3 clear drum liners loaded with good quality clothing for Goodwill. This is an exceptionally good batch. I went back through stuff I passed over two years ago, and culled things that were not in sizes I currently wear, or will likely ever wear again. A few were too small, but most were too large. Somebody will get a good deal on this batch.
1 lawn leaf bag with moldy soft suitcases. Been so long since I have seen these, I forgot I had ’em. Too bad of condition to try to sell. I invoked the 60 rule: no one wants someone over 60’s crappy personal junk.
1 trash bag with clothing I wouldn’t dump in the Goodwill rag hopper.
So that’s ten goodly sized bags on day one. If I haven’t hurt myself lifting, I’ll go at it again tomorrow.
Got parts for the tractor. Rained all day.
This morning our VP was at home in Walnut Hills today out walking with his 3 yr old when confronted by protestors. Apparently it got a bit heated because he thought it rude that they would confront him when he was walking with his daughter. He later went back without his daughter and had a discussion with them which was more civilized per the news.
What is interesting about the back side of the story is the mixed nature of where VP Vance lives. Walnut Hills is part of OLD Cincinnati going back to the early 1800’s, the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an attack on the Slavery that was happening right across the river from where she lived and is cited as one of the motivating forces that brought about the Civil War. Walnut Hills is currently about 65% Black with about 35% receiving SNAP benefits and about 50% being renters. An interesting mix of Rich/Upper Middle Class/Poor people living next to each other in an area that was totally built out before 1870.
Even with it’s mixed population with a heavy population of poor people Walnut Hills High School is ranked as the #1 public high school in Ohio and about #100 for the entire US. The southern part of the Walnut Hills includes part of Eden Park, one of the oldest large inner city parks in the US, dating back the 1830’s – 1840’s, which sits on a hill overlooking the Ohio River with a beautiful view of downtown just down the hill to the West.
Immediately adjacent to Walnut Hills and also next to Eden Park overlooking the river is Hyde Park (Walnut Hills is BEHIND Hyde Park – it does NOT overlook the river) where mansion after mansion that date from the middle 1800’s sit side by side overlooking the Ohio river. Hyde Park was and still is the land of multi millionaires with horse riding trails and stables with horses throughout the community, just 2 miles as the crow flies from downtown Cincinnati. Not sure there is any other place in the US that has that dynamic of old money, big old mansions with still active horse riding in a wilderness area, that is just 2 miles from the downtown of a major city. (oh … and it has one of the oldest golf clubs in the US, where William Howard Taft would play golf when he was home in Cinn).
What other Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate or actual office holder has lived, or lives as an adult, in such a mixed neighborhood where 35% of the people are at least partially on welfare and more than half are minorities?
re: “Still time to rally?”
feat: “Foundation”, psychohistory
Folks,
Does anyone else see public indication that Canada’s largest bank sold its entire share holding of bitcoin stockpiler Strategy (formerly Microstrategy) on Friday?
It seems according to msm that assembled Crypto Kings didn’t unlock a “digital Fort Knox” as anticipated at the first ‘White House Crypto Summit’. Hopefully bitcoin doesn’t get relegated to the memecoin division in the White House stockpile? Certainly the Doge looked quite pleased with his week as C-Span recorded his departure on Air Force One along with President Trump and family destined to Mar-a-Lago.
The Guardians of the Two Holies must be elated with the Doge’s recent announcement of his 14th child, Seldon Lycurgus. Seldon is believed homage to the Asimov science fiction seer of the future. Lycurgus represented “good order” in the militaristic Greek city state, Sparta. His star power has perhaps faded somewhat since the fall of the Third Reich.